As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2014

Registration No. 333-109505

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

OPEN TEXT CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Ontario, Canada		98-0154400
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

275 Frank Tompa Drive

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 0A1

(Address of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

Centrinity Stock Option Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

 

Open Text Inc.

The Pyramid Center

600 Montgomery Street, Suite 1800

San Francisco, CA 94111

(Name and address of Agent for Service)

(415) 500-9600

(Telephone number, including area code, of Agent for Service)

 

 

Copies to:

Mary E. Alcock, Esq.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

One Liberty Plaza

New York, NY 10006

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer		þ		Accelerated filer		¨
Non-accelerated filer		¨		Smaller reporting company		¨

 

 

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-109505) (the “Registration Statement”) relating to the Open Text Corporation (the “Company”) Centrinity Stock Option Plan, as amended (the “Plan”). The Company is no longer issuing securities under the Plan. This Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement is being filed in order to deregister all shares that were registered under the Registration Statement and remain unissued under the Plan.

The Company hereby removes from registration, by means of this post-effective amendment, 107,000 common shares of the Company registered but unsold under this Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, on this 29^th day of July 2014.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on July 29, 2014.

 

Signature		Title
/S/ MARK J. BARRENECHEA Mark J. Barrenechea		President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
/S/ PAUL MCFEETERS Paul McFeeters		Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
/S/ SUJEET KINI Sujeet Kini		Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)
/S/ P. THOMAS JENKINS P. Thomas Jenkins		Chairman
* Randy Fowlie		Director
Gail E. Hamilton		Director
* Brian J. Jackman		Director
* Stephen J. Sadler		Director
* Michael Slaunwhite		Director
Katharine B. Stevenson		Director
Deborah Weinstein		Director
/S/ MUHI MAJZOUB Muhi Majzoub		Authorized Representative in the United States

 

*By		/S/ P. THOMAS JENKINS
		P. Thomas Jenkins Attorney-in-fact

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit No.		Description of Exhibit
*24.1		Power of Attorney of P. Thomas Jenkins and Alan Hoverd

 

* Previously filed on the signature page to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-109505) filed on October 6, 2003.